Cuerpos que resisten: dispositivos de lo monstruoso en Pelea de Gallos de María Fernanda Ampuero

Abstract

The present investigation pretends to establish the dialectic of the monstrous as a form of resistance against the power speech. With this objective, we get ready to define the following categories: the monstrous as an affirmation of alternativeness (Moraña, 2017); the grotesque as the state of uncertainity between what’s normal and abnormal (Edwards & Grauland, 2013); and the becoming-monstrous as the cease of being and the becoming of an unbeing (Deleuze & Guattari, 2004; Audran & Sánchez, 2023). Categories that express themselves through dispositives (Deleuze & Guattari, 1978; Agamben, 2011) as a way of thinking and proposing a new aesthetic of the andean and tropical gothic. The methodology corresponds to a hermeneutic analysis according to the principles of Paul Ricoeur's Triple Mimesis (1995). The conclusions demonstrate that the characters present in the stories correspond to the category of monster proposed by the Neo-Gothic.